Windows 8 - Create Program Shortcut To Desktop

Sometimes, the program or software does not have any optional selection by creating shortcut to desktop after finishing installation. And so, this guide will show you a few simple steps on how to create program or software shortcut to desktop in Windows 8. Below, will use FileZilla program as an example.

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Free Windows Defragmentation Tools

Experiencing slowness when opening some document files after some time ? does not perform fast when it was like first time ? This is due to fragmentation which happens to a volume over time as you save, change, or delete files. The changes that you save to a file are often stored in a different place on the volume than the original file. This doesn't change where the file appears in Windows.

In order to speed up the hard disk, it will require disk defragmentation tools which comes free with windows. However, the tools that provided by Microsoft seems to has less effect on a fragmented volume. Hence, there's third party tools been developed to solve the issue. Below is some of the listed free fragmentation software tools.

MyDefrag

MyDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer (a maintenance utility to make your hard disk faster) for Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 2008, Win7, and for X64. It is freeware, no time limit, fully functional, no advertisements. Fast, low overhead, with many optimization strategies, can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like a disk to Windows. Included are a set of easy to use scripts for end users, a scripting engine for demanding users, a screensaver, and a combined Windows plus command line version that can be scheduled by the Windows task scheduler or for use from administrator scripts.

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Reasons To Change Your Password

The most common passwords are used every single day even up to online banking password. It's a risk that some of the passwords are easily guess by hackers without using any hacking tools / software to do it. Every time a site is hacked and the passwords exposed, those log-ins are added to existing password-cracking tools to make hacking the next site even easier. These tools search against lists of known log-ins and search for patterns that have already been discovered, such as choosing a dictionary word and substituting its vowels for numbers.

The list of the 25 most common passwords in full (and there's more)

1) 123456
2) password
3) 12345678
4) qwerty
5) abc123
6) 123456789
7) 111111
8) 1234567
9) iloveyou
10) adobe123
11) 123123 Up 5
12) admin
13) 1234567890
14) letmein
15) photoshop
16) 1234
17) monkey
18) shadow
19) sunshine
20) 12345
21) password1
22) princess
23) azerty
24) trustno1
25) 000000

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Insert And Extract Pages In PDF

Ever wonder how to edit PDF file by re-order pages, merge, split, and password-protect your existing PDF files without hassle going through all the process by converting it to doc, xls etc for reedit and reconvert it back to PDF ?
Below is some of the freeware version that can be found in the internet and some enhanced / professional version can be purchased to have more features functionality.

PDF Forge (PDF Architect)

• Free

• Rotate pages
   
• Delete pages
   
• Merge PDFs
   
• Move pages

• Professional

     
• Edit
  Edit text directly in your PDF documents, change fonts & text formatting
• Convert
  PDF to Word, Excel, HTML or image files
• Insert
  Easily insert images, links, backgrounds, headers and footers
• Review
  Compare documents, add stamps and notes
• Sign & Secure
  Secure your PDFs with 256 Bit encryption
• Forms
  Create PDF form from scratch or use professional PDF templates

For more visit http://www.pdfarchitect.org

PDFsam

PDFsam is a free, open source, platform independent tool released under GPLv2 license and designed to perform split, merge and other manipulations on pdf document. It’s released in 2 versions, basic and enhanced.
Requirements:
Java Runtime Environment 1.6 or higher.
pdfsam basic:
A simple tool designed to split and merge pdf files. With it’s simple and intuitive interface you can:

• split your pdf documents (into chapters, single pages, etc.).
• merge many pdf documents or subsections of them.
• extract sections of your document into a single pdf document.
• mix alternate pages taken from two pdf documents in straight or reverse order into a single document.
• rotate pages of the selected pdf documents.
• visually reorder pages of a selected pdf document.
• visually compose a document dragging pages from selected pdf documents.
• save and load your workspace to automate your recurrent jobs.
• manage pdfsam settings and set a workspace to load at start up.

pdfsam enhanced:
This is the enhanced version of pdfsam. In this version you’ll find all the basic features plus:

• encrypt your pdf files (RC40 bits, RC128 bits, AES128 bits) and set permissions on them.
• add a pdf frontpage or an addendum (or both) to your pdf documents.
• decrypt pdf documents.
• extract attachments from your pdf documents.
• set viewer options to a document to tell the viewer application how should open the document.
• set the metadata of a document (author, title, subject and keywords).

For more visit http://www.pdfsam.org/

PDFFil

Create, Fill, Edit, Delete, and submit PDF Form Fields,
Type, Draw, Comment, Sign and Scan PDF Documents,
PDF Ink or PDF Annotator on Table PC
Open, View, Edit and Save PDF files without Adobe Acrobat
For more visit http://www.pdfill.com/

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Simple Diagram Showing Email Flow Process

The diagram will show on how does email been send and receive. Will not go through any details on email filtering via firewall or any anti-spam devices. That will be explained on another section.

Below is the diagram briefly showing how does email flow from sender to recipient.

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How Does Website DNS Work

DNS is a short form of Domain Name System which host / house thousands or millions of domain naming context. This server is responsible for a worldwide domain name resolution which has the same functionality as telephone book directory. There's thousands of servers working around the globe to help resolving the domain name to the right IP address every day without fail. Also, not all of DNS servers will have / listed certain of the domain names (depending on the DNS server configuration)

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 Below is the compilation list of Free Remote Management Tool which can be used to remotely support, control etc.

1. Microsoft Remote Desktop (RDP) - Comes with Microsoft Windows
2. Real VNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
3. Tight VNC - http://www.tightvnc.com/
4. Ultra VNC - http://www.uvnc.com/
5. Join Me - https://join.me/
6. mRemoteNG - http://www.mremoteng.org/
7. WebEx - http://www.webex.com/ (Sign Up For Free with 1 host session and 3 people in a meeting)
8. Showmypc - http://showmypc.com/
9. Ammyy Admin - http://www.ammyy.com/en/
10. Skeep - http://sourceforge.net/projects/skeepvncconsole/
11. Pocket Cloud - http://www.pocketcloud.com/
12. Zoho Remote Support - https://www.zoho.com/assist/
13. Skyfex - http://skyfex.com/
14. Litemanager - http://www.litemanager.com/